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Compounding Your Interest: How To Increase Your Saving’s Return
One of the most pervasive answers I hear about why people aren’t saving more, is that savings “just sit there.” They don’t do anything. With…
17Mar2009 | Investment U | 0 comments | ContinuedRushing Toward Zero
“The Incredible Shrinking Interest Rate!”
Well, you’ve probably heard about the Fed slashing its key interest rate by 0.75% to historic lows, with the federal funds…
19Dec2008 | Oxbury Research | 0 comments | ContinuedFed Slashes Interest Rates to a 0.0% to 0.25% Target Range … But Now What?
As expected, U.S. Federal Reserve policymakers slashed a benchmark interest rate yesterday (Tuesday). But they cut it by a bigger-than-expected amount, and did so in…
17Dec2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | ContinuedNegative rates on T-Bills
Treasuries rose, pushing rates on the three-month bill negative for the first time, as investors gravitate toward the safety of U.S. government debt amid the…
10Dec2008 | The Real Deal | 0 comments | ContinuedRate cutting palooza
European Central Banks cut rates
The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee voted to drop its key lending rate by a full percentage point to 2%.…
5Dec2008 | The Real Deal | 0 comments | ContinuedDow Zooms Above 9,000 on Eve of Expected Fed Rate Cut
U.S. equities rallied yesterday (Tuesday) as the U.S. Federal Reserve convened for the first day of a two-day meeting of its monetary policy committee.
At the…
29Oct2008 | Money Morning | Comments Off | ContinuedRate cuts trigger inflation fears
Marketwatch
Moming Zohu
The Federal Reserve, European Central Bank and four other central banks lowered interest rates in a coordinated effort to combat world’s deepening financial turmoil.…
9Oct2008 | The Real Deal | Comments Off | ContinuedFed Holds Rate Steady in Face of Volatile Markets
Citing balanced threats from weak economic growth and inflation, the U.S. Federal Reserve yesterday (Tuesday) voted to hold the benchmark Federal Funds rate at 2.0%,…
17Sep2008 | Money Morning | Comments Off | ContinuedFed Signals Next Move Will be a Hike in Rates, But Timing Remains Uncertain
The next move from the U.S. Federal Reserve will be to increase the Federal Funds rate, although the timing of that hike remains to be…
27Aug2008 | Money Morning | 1 comment | ContinuedEscalating Inflation at Home and Abroad Puts Pressure on Central Bankers
Inflation is spreading like wildfire around the globe, and while not every country is hurting as bad as Zimbabwe with its mind-boggling 2.2 million percent…
17Jul2008 | Money Morning | Comments Off | ContinuedA Supersized Transfer of Wealth
U.S. markets were closed on Friday…
…Still, the world did not stand still so Americans could enjoy their fireworks and hotdogs.
“Americans are so nice…so positive. I always…
8Jul2008 | Daily Reckoning | Comments Off | ContinuedHow to Survive Stagflation – With a Profit in Your Pocket
Increasingly in recent weeks commentators have begun speculating about the dreaded “S-wordâ€- stagflation- and whether or not such a protracted period featuring both high prices…
10Jun2008 | Money Morning | 1 comment | Continued
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